http://www.durf.org Live from the world's largest Japantown Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:25:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So the iPhone 3G pricing has been announced by the SoftBank folks. The basic breakdown for the representative plan described on that page: Handset price: ¥23,040 for 8GB, ¥34,560 for 16GB (paid in ¥960 or ¥1,440 monthly payments over the course of the two-year plan). Service price: ¥7,280 a month (including the ... http://www.durf.org/2008/06/23/iphone-pricing-announced/ TechRadar UK has a piece up with quotes from an NTT DoCoMo spokesman on yesterday's news: DoCoMo failed to nab iPhone. DoCoMo has admitted to TechRadar it tried and failed to strike a deal with Apple to sell the 3G iPhone in Japan. . . . [Ichikoshi Shûichirô says] "Anyway, DoCoMo ... http://www.durf.org/2008/06/05/docomo-talks-about-iphone-failure/ I was just pointed to this SoftBank press release from today. I quote: SOFTBANK MOBILE Corp. today announced it has signed an agreement with Apple® to bring the iPhone™ to Japan later this year. (Seriously, that's the entire press release; you don't really have to go read it now.) I'm happy ... http://www.durf.org/2008/06/04/softbank-iphone-confirmed/ In the "web" category: A few quick links to things I wrote on that other site: One, two, three . . . (on Ryan Ginstrom's online and downloadable word-and-character-counting utilities) Facebook gets translated, saves a ton of money (on, well, Facebook and the translation of its interface) Guerrilla editing on the road (on ... http://www.durf.org/2008/05/28/more-swet-posting-c/ A short post to link to a couple of posts I did over at the SWET blog: Learn the language, stay a while longer, on the possibility that Japanese language ability will let you get a work visa good for five years instead of three, and The translation problem solved ... http://www.durf.org/2008/05/08/swet-posting/ An old photo site, actually. A little while ago Flickr began accepting video uploads (no more than 150MB and 90 seconds). I just tried it out for the first time and this is the result: ShareThis http://www.durf.org/2008/05/02/new-video-site/ I just posted over at the swet.jp blog, which is where all the cool kids hang out. I was happy to be invited to write for that site because: It will focus my attention on thinking about the work that I do and writing something readable about itI can then repurpose ... http://www.durf.org/2008/04/30/blogging-elsewhere/ If you live in Japan, you get to watch American movies three months later than everyone else, and for more money to boot. Well, in the theater, anyway; if you're renting disks it's quite affordable but you get to wait six months instead. I've never gotten into the whole "download ... http://www.durf.org/2008/04/21/new-old-movies/ Finally got this place updated to the latest flavor of WordPress. I was tired of seeing that "you are in danger of being hacked by Ukranian credit-card thieves" note every time I logged in. More than that, though, I was tired of never being able to log in. This hosting ... http://www.durf.org/2008/04/17/wp-success/ An old temple photo Originally uploaded by Durf Taken at Jindaiji in the late nineteenth century. Not. Actually it was taken at Jindaiji a few years ago (the original is here) and run through this cool online "old photo generator" called the ... http://www.durf.org/2008/04/07/an-old-temple-photo/